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Smailholm Tower (HS)

Kelso

This 20-metre high stronghold, built in the 1400s dominates the skyline. On a clear day you can see as far as Banburgh Castle in Northumberland. The author Sir Walter Scott spent much of his childhood on a farm below the tower, where he first heard stories that made up his 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', the subject of an exhibition here.